# GPS This Week — May 23–30, 2026 > ← All issuesThis week GPS published five new articles on idleness, drugs, gangs, and despair inside Georgia prisons, and sent 270 emails on advocates' behalf.Featured storyThe Flame — May 23, 2026Forc… **Published**: 2026-05-31 **Source**: https://gps.press/newsletter/2026-05-31/ **Author**: GPS Staff --- [← All issues](https://gps.press/newsletter/#past-issues) This week GPS published five new articles on idleness, drugs, gangs, and despair inside Georgia prisons, and sent 270 emails on advocates' behalf. ## Featured story [The Flame](https://gps.press/the-flame/) — May 23, 2026 Forced into running phone scam operations by gang members inside Georgia prisons, this man reveals how state negligence and corruption enabled hundreds of thousands in fraud — from addiction to coercion to resistance. Have a story to tell, or someone inside who does? Share it through [Tell My Story](https://gps.press/tell-my-story/), and refer a loved one inside. ## Articles published [The Only Family Left](https://gps.press/the-only-family-left/) — May 30, 2026 How the state manufactured the vacuum its gangs now fill, from Commissioner Wayne Garner's 1996 purge to today's TAC-squad raids, and the body count it refuses to publish. [The Existential Vacuum](https://gps.press/the-existential-vacuum/) — May 28, 2026 Georgia's prisons have built an emptiness so total that despair, violence, and addiction are the only things left to fill it. [Zombie Dorms](https://gps.press/zombie-dorms/) — May 25, 2026 A single soup buys hours of oblivion on K2, meth and fentanyl kill, and the state logs overdoses as "natural" — then stops releasing causes of death at all. [Nothing to Do](https://gps.press/nothing-to-do/) — May 24, 2026 One television serves dozens of people and almost no one has work or class. Georgia removed the programs that once kept people occupied. ## Emails sent on your behalf 270 emails went out this period: - 262 advocacy emails to legislators - 8 welcome emails to new advocates ## New advocates 7 new advocates joined this week. ## Explore GPS Find Your Legislator Look up exactly who represents you under the Gold Dome and how to reach them — the first step to making your voice count on prison policy. [https://gps.press/find-your-legislator/](https://gps.press/find-your-legislator/) --- The GPS Team — accountability@gps.press [Subscribe to GPS This Week](https://gps.press/newsletter/#signup)